Product type
Recalls involving tank, tankless, and heat-pump water heaters.
43 official CPSC notices published 1977–2025, matched on the notice's product identity — not on description text.
Navien Instantaneous or Tankless
Hazard: An unstable connection can cause the water heater's vent collar to separate or detach if pressure is applied. A detached vent collar poses a risk of carbon monoxide poisoning to the consumer.
Watts Regulator
Hazard: The relief valve can fail to reduce pressure and avert failure or rupture of the water heater tank and associated valves, posing rupture and burn hazard to consumers.
Springfield Wire Inc. (SWI)
Hazard: The outer cover of the immersion heater can crack and expose the heating element to water, posing a shock hazard to consumers.
Natural and Propane Gas
Hazard: The water heater's flue gas temperatures can exceed safe limits and produce excessive temperatures in the venting unit, posing a fire hazard. Also, the water heater's exhaust can leak into the surrounding room, posing a carbon monoxide hazard.
Junction Boxes Used with
Hazard: Wiring connections within the junction box can become loose, posing an overheating and fire hazard.
Laars
Hazard: Internal black plastic venting components in the gas boilers and water heaters can crack and leak flue gases, including carbon monoxide (CO), posing a risk of CO poisoning.
Triangle Tube/Phase III
Hazard: The burner plate and flue hood seal on the water heaters can fail due to an improper seal causing a leak of flue gases and carbon monoxide (CO). This poses the risk of CO poisoning to consumers inside of the house.
Chun Tai Electric Heater
Hazard: Moisture in the heating element could cause corrosion over time, presenting a shock hazard.
A.O. Smith Water Products
Hazard: The water heaters can accumulate soot on the burners, posing a fire hazard.
Robertshaw Controls
Hazard: Screws on some water heater valves could break. If this happens, gas could leak from the valve, which poses a risk of gas explosion and fire.
LP and Convertible Gas
Hazard: The gas water heater controls can gradually open instead of snapping open to full flow, which can cause soot to build up on the water heater burner, presenting a fire hazard.
Showerhead Hot
Hazard: The showerhead hot water heaters are attached to the shower's water supply piping and connected to a household's electrical supply source when central hot water is not available. Undersized wiring prevents this unit from being suitable in wet locations, the rotary switch is not waterproof and the installation instructions fail to recommend an electrical junction box, but instead recommend tape. Another hazard is the plastic enclosure, which poses an electrocution and fire hazard.